Archive for November, 2014

One hour long water aerobic. I can’t -:(. The very first time, I picked up the largest barbells water dumbbell and .. and the result was very embarrassing. I started to swim since six months old, in the Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing. Now the lake is forbid for swimmers. I thought I could handle anything in the water.

The medium one fits me better. After an hour long swim I feel revitalized but after an hour of aerobic I feel like wasted, kaput.

I reckoned that one needs to try it once before passing a judgment. 想当然 won’t work.

The few instructors, as it happened, all female. Most of them are just leading us except one, who wants to have fun too. She’s kind who likes to party everyday but unfortunately there isn’t not much of response from us.

New York Islanders is a professional ice hockey team based on Long Island that was founded in 1972 and went on to win four consecutive Stanley Cup championships from 1980 to 1983. Clark Gillies and Bobby (Robert Glen) Bourne were teammates and won the four Cup, the holy grail of professional ice hockey together. As if it were not enough, his son Justin Bourne played professional ice hockey and married his daughter Brianna Gillies.

My maternal grandparents met through their fathers too. His father went to Shanghai for business in 1931 and met with her uncle – after publically disowned her father, she was living with her uncle instead. The two men were close business associates in Beijing, then called Peking. When he learnt the son was recently widowed, he sent his private tutor to the hotel to propose the marriage. And insisted to host the grand ceremony the following summer.

My parents met on the basketball court in the military in 1950s and married in 1959 in Beijing.

He’s the third Swedish player being conducted into the ice hockey NHL Hall of Fame this year. Looking at him, like looking at a Viking – maybe he’s. Here is a video of him fooling around with the matures. Sweden issued stamps to honor him. USA has far to many ‘heroes’ to honor.

The Czech player Hasek also became the Hall of Famer this year. Pat LaFontaine who looked really old, lavished glorious at Hasek at length.
The best American player Mike Modano who cried a lot while giving the acceptance speech was also inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Money can motivate ghost to pull the millstone is a Chinese idiom, meaning money talks, in short. Good governance and legal system makes this country great. No one is above the law seems a distance memory.

Another Chinese idiom says it’s easier to create an empire than to maintain it. This country, USA, used to be great ..

They held a tryout for 5-year-old boys and my father took me there. I didn’t even have real skates. I had those blades that you screwed onto the soles of your shoes, but I was tall, and the 9-year-olds didn’t have a goalie, so they put me in with them and thats where I fell in love with the game of hockey.

On tv tonight, he tells the female reporter, with Schwarzeneggerish accent and marble in his mouth, that when he was drafted by NHL in 1983, he didn’t know until someone told him. He asked:
“What does that mean?”

He retired in 2012 and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2014. He played his last season for the KHL.

In the 1980s, the majority of NHL players were Canadians, 80% or even higher. Then the league started recruiting from Sweden, Finland, Germany and Russia.
..Now Putin wants his own league to compete with the NHL. So he sets up KHL and begins to throw money at good players such as NJ DevilsKovalchuk: he signed $77m over 12 years with Devils and was expected to be paid $15m a season with the SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL. Putin is from St. Petersburg.

Now, with the oil prices dropping, I’m wondering if the KHL can keep up it’s payroll.

The jerseys are all made in Canada (like the NHL) designed by Gordo. They’re really heavy. The yellow (Fussy Puckers) has just arrived. (green Riptide) and the blue team has folded. ice hockey team long island.

Islanders best player at the moment, John Tavares’ uncle, also named John Tavares was the best lacrosse player in the world!

This pictures is John Tavares of the ice hockey Islanders.

Talking about the Lacrosse, the Long Island’s lacrosse is the best in the nation – taking four out of top ten. Out of tennis, swimming and lacrosse, my daughter loves lacrosse the most and captained her high school varsityteam.